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History of Science and Mathematics
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Why was the development of mathematics very slow between Ancient Greece and Descartes?

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Great battles in the history of mathematics

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What was Pierre-Simon Laplace's reaction to Young's double slit experiment?

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When did they begin to make left and right shoes?

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Use of eigenvalues of operators in quantum mechanics

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When was the geometric structure of a water molecule discovered?

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Aristotelian explanation of magnetism

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Works of scientists, philosophers and mathematicians that (re)surfaced after a long time

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Would they have known you can't go faster than light in 1790

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Origin of the name "Loschmidt echo" in quantum chaos studies

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"Équation de Maxwell-Thomson"

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Did John von Neumann solve any unsolved problem in mathematics?

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What are examples of theories in recent history of science and mathematics that were hold pretty long but turned out non-true?

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When was mercury given its name?

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Was fake/rigged data common prior to the 20th century?

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Did Newton's leap to understanding gravity involve cannonball thought experiments on a smooth Earth?

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Why aren't Nobel nomination archives updated more often?

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Were molecules called atoms in the 19th century?

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Component form of the fourth Maxwell's equation

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Why is the H theorem called the big Eta theorem?

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Did Hertz discover the concept of frequency and if so, how did Doppler think of frequency?

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Feynman learning technique

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What does the 'W.H.' stand for in 'J.H.W.H. Conway' in Knuth's book Surreal Numbers?

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Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right

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Did the earliest inklings of hyperbolic geometry come from medieval Islamic mathematicians?

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Who wrote the equation $c=\lambda\nu$ for the first time?

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Great scientists with chaotic private lives

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F = ma -- How was did we come to understand that this compact form expressed what Newton said in words?

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How were the values of permeability and permittivity derived?

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How was light polarization interpreted when first discovered?

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